Broadway's Master Class Now Extended to Sept. 4

By Kenneth Jones
11 Jul 2011

Tyne Daly as Maria Callas
Tyne Daly as Maria Callas
Photo by Joan Marcus

A raft of enthusiastic reviews for Tyne Daly's performance as Maria Callas in Master Class has prompted Manhattan Theatre Club to extend its Broadway revival of Terrence McNally's play for a second time. It will now play to Sept. 4 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.

Stephen Wadsworth directs the play about a late-career Callas bullying and nurturing classical voice students at a master class in the 1970s. (She also offers her artistic point of view and great swaths of her personal life, including her affair with Aristotle Onassis.) It's a work of fiction inspired by her real classes at the Juilliard School.

The production opened on July 7. Read Playbill.com's On Opening Night column here.  Master Class also features Olivier Award nominee Sierra Boggess (as Sharon Graham), Clinton Brandhagen (as Stagehand), Jeremy Cohen (as Emmanuel Weinstock), Drama Desk Award winner Alexandra Silber (as Sophie De Palma) and Garrett Sorenson (as Anthony Candolino).



For tickets, call (212) 239-6200 or visit www.Telecharge.com. For more information about MTC, visit www.ManhattanTheatreClub.com.